Kyrgyz mobs burned Uzbek villages and slaughtered their residents yesterday in the worst ethnic rioting this Central Asian nation has seen in 20 years, sending more than 75,000 Uzbeks fleeing across the border into Uzbekistan.
A tourist bus packed with Iranian nationals plunged into a ravine yesterday while negotiating a mountain road in the central Philippines, killing at least 18 people and injuring more than 30 others.
Joran van der Sloot told police in Chile that it was an unidentified robber who beat a young woman to death in his hotel room, a killing for which the Dutchman has been charged with murder in Peru.
United States President Barack Obama will demand that British Petroleum (BP) create a special account with "substantial" reserves to pay Gulf oil claims and will take other steps aimed at aiding the region, his top political adviser said yesterday.
NEW ORLEANS (AP): BP plans to bring in an oil-burning device and a tanker from the North Sea as it tries to contain the crude spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, a disaster creating headaches for people who make money off the sea and those processing their...
BAGHDAD (AP): Masked gunmen killed three jewellers before fleeing with a large amount of gold in a sophisticated attack yesterday in southern Iraq, underscoring fears that street crime is soaring as sectarian fighting wanes.
WASHINGTON (AP): The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) thought it was closing in on Joran Van der Sloot in the Natalee Holloway missing-teenager case, paying him at least US$15,000 in a sting operation, federal officials said yesterday.
Civil servants in Spain took to the streets yesterday to protest against the government\'s decision to reduce public sector salaries by 5 per cent this year and the imposition of a freeze.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP): The brother-in-law of Kim Jong Il was promoted to the No. 2 spot in the secretive nation's leadership, a position that could allow him to become the next ruler or a kingmaker who will decide which of Kim's sons succeeds his father....
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP):Ten NATO service members, seven of them American, were killed in separate attacks yesterday on the deadliest day of the year for foreign forces in Afghanistan.
BHOPAL, India (AP)A court yesterday convicted seven former senior employees of Union Carbide's Indian subsidiary of "death by negligence" for their roles in the 1984 leak of toxic gas that killed an estimated 15,000 people in the world's worst...
NEW ORLEANS (AP):As officials reported a gradual increase in the amount of oil being captured from the spewing wellhead at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, BP said yesterday that it plans next month to replace the cap collecting the crude...
